Means fob setting ottt ieatheb



Aug. 19, 193 J. A. MILLICAN 1,773,494

MEANS FOR SETTING OUT LEATHER Filed May 17. 1929 1 INVENTOR 4 AAQMQ ATTORNEY 7 The fabric is shown in the drawingsas being secured to the ribs 11 as 'by means of suitable nails orscrews li. On the opposite side of the board or plate from'the ribs 11 and 12 "therewill be a substantially smooth surface, provided on the plate itself or by means of Patented Aug. 1 9 193i) 1 warren stares JAMES ANDREW MILLICAN, on WINCHESTER, imssaciicsn'rrs MEANS non sn'r'rme our LEATHER Application filedr'May 17, 1929. wam;363 31 s ready egress therefrom of the contained moisture.

Still other objects will readily occur ,to

those skilled in the art upon reference to the following descriptionand the accompanying drawings, in which Fig. 1 is a plan view of the underside of i one of the setting out boards forming the subject/matter of the present application.

Fig. 2 is a section through a stack of such boards as if longitudinally of Fig. l.

Inthe drawings, the device for the present purpose isshown as comprising a board or plate which may be of any suitable material and which is indicated at10. This plate will be provided at its ends with flanges or ribs 11 extending along two opposite sides of the plate and between these flanges or ribs 11 it will-be provided with a plurality of other projections or ribs 12-spaced apartia short On the same side'as the ribs 12 distance. there will be stretched tightly over said ribs and flanges oneor more layers of fabric '13 of which that one next to the ribs 12 is preferably of rustproof metal so as not to be af- .fected by the presence ofmoisture and there- I by become loosened.

' As the ribs 11 and 12 are substantially all of the same 'heightthe fabric 13 will be normally in contact with the tops of theiribs.

a removable sheet of suitable material.

side of the board and pressed tightly and uniformlyso thatwsubstantially allair .7

excluded: from beneath the hide/ tliz's: proposed/to prepare thus" a' number of the boardsor plates each with its hide set out thereon: and to stack them as-indicat'ed in Fig. 2 of the drawings; with the ribs of the a will have no hide upon it; The stack of plates with the hides thereon thus assembled will then be subjected to acurrent of air whichywillfpass readily between: the several plates inthe recesses between theribs 12-and because oftheopen mesh fabric 13 will con tactwith-the wet leather or hide on theneXt plate and carryoff-the moisture therefrom.

,. boards" ezitendinginithe same direction. It is of: course, obvious that the topmost plate Instead offstackingthe plates one upon the other, they may be placed vertically in suit able supporting means and air passed up or down between them, or across, according to i the direction of the ribs. I It is preferred that the ribs 12be arranged fairly close together andthat they contact with the-fabric 13 when the plates are stacked I as indic'atedin Fig. 2 so th'atthere is a pres- I sure exerted on the fabric and from the fabric;

upon thehide on the next plate so that the.

leather. is jmaintained in close contact with its setting out, plate throughout its surface during the drying period.

While the elements 12 have been indicated' as ribs and shown ascontinuoussit' is of course obv ous that they may be discontinuous or brokenand while the fabric is stated" i as stretched over the ribs, it is. evident that any sortof porous crown onthe ribs will be the full equivalent of the fabri'candsuch I modifications are indeed in contemplation.

lVhen such pressure isflexerted and the drying will'proceed with little or no shrink i I age of area of the leather;

leather thus'm'aintainedin close coiitactthe Now having described'the invention: i the preferred forms of" embodiment thereof, itisto be understood that the said invent-ion isfto belimited, not tothe specific details herein described and'illustrated, but only by j In using the device a tanned hide 20 in wet] condition will be. spread out on the smooth,

the pe Of the-claims which follow,:'-. g

Iclaiin: 1 v y wet leather comprising a plate having one side smooth to receive the wet leather and having on its opposite side a. plurality of spaced projections with an open meshed fabric overlying and in contact with the tops of such projections.

2. A setting out board or plate for drying wet leather comprising aplate having one side smooth to receive the wet leather and having on its opposite side a plurality of spaced parallel ribs with an open meshed fabric overlying and in contact with the tops of such parallel ribs.

3. A setting out board or plate for drying wet leather comprising a plate having one side smooth to receive the wet leather and. having on its opposite side a plurality of spaced projections with an open meshed fabric overlying and in contact with the tops of'such projections, said plate having on the same side as said projections, and along two opposite sides thereof, flanges orribs of substantially the height of the projections adjacent thereto. o

4:. A setting out board or plate for drying wet leather comprising a plate having one side smooth to receive the Wet leather and having on its opposite side a plurality of spaced projections with an apertured fabric sheet overlying and in contact with the tops of such projections. 7

JAMES ANDREW MILLICAN. 

